In this post, I would like to address some of the psychology of playing expressively, as well as some more tips on phrasing that will greatly enhance your ability to impart emotion in your playing. Let’s start with a few words about our psychology, or perhaps...

As promised, this post will follow up on the previous post about learning to play expressively on the violin, or playing with emotion. Remember, we draw from several sources to play expressively, or with emotion: intellectual, bow hand, and left hand. Other factors...

Expressive Playing Is Important Of all the students of all the musical instruments in the world, I would have to say that the violin and violin students have higher expectations as far as expressive playing. Think about it: the mythos surrounding violin is one of...